Writing talk abstracts and outlines, newer speakers forget all the time that a talk is COMMUNICATION, and has an audience. You're speaking TO someone, and you should have an idea who that someone is before you write the talk, let alone deliver it.
If you don't know who your audience is, it's going to be a bad talk no matter how cool your tech is.
This (sadly) doesn't apply to academic conferences, where your audience is the paper review committee.
Folks, can we please STOP posting "naked QR codes" with no accompanying URL/hyperlink? Not everyone is looking at your talk via a phone.
It's also fairly hostile to the visually impaired.
Hey, if you're submitting a talk to #Kubecon, you don't need "Kubernetes" in the title. It's assumed.
"Phrase : Phrase" talk titles are almost always bad.
Usually, you end up with those because you couldn't figure out a good title (it's hard!) and decided to glue together a couple of clever-sounding phrases with a colon. It doesn't actually work, and hurts your acceptance chances/attendance.
Generally speaking, if you find yourself putting a colon into your draft talk title, rewrite it.
#speakertips @kubecon
Hey, would-be speakers:
Other OSS events aren't Rejekts. You can't just copy and paste your not-accepted Kubecon proposal onto another event's CfP and expect it to do well. In fact, if you do this more than once program committees become predisposed to reject anything from you.
You need to look at what the event actually wants and only submit proposals that are appropriate to that event.
CfP reminder: there is nothing immoral about using ChatGPT (or other LLM) for your talk proposal drafting. But please be aware that it generally does a pretty bad job, and it has no knowledge that you don't give it in your prompt.
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Reminder that if you are submitting a talk proposal to an #OpenSource #Community conference, then your abstract MUST spell out which technologies/projects your talk will cover.
If you don't tell us, we're going to assume that your talk is a stealth product pitch.
Hey, speakers! If your talk proposal doesn't say which open source tools you're covering, and your blog is full of proprietary software coverage, I'm going to assume that you're trying to sneak a proprietary SW talk into an OSS conference and reject it.
My system of having last minute speaker notes raised some eyebrows at Duugfest 23! (It’s pencil and rubs off) @frameworkcomputer #df23 #speakertips
#SpeakerTips from a program committee member: if your talk description doesn't make it crystal-clear what you're going to present, your talk is unlikely to be accepted.
PC members do not "appreciate a good mystery".
Speakers ... don't use ChatGPT to write your talk proposals. It doesn't do a good job. If English writing is hard for you, it's still better to be genuine; we know that not everyone is fluent and can give you a break for that. If you submit a low-content LLM-written proposal, we can't. #SpeakerTips
Mistakes every career public speaker makes exactly once:
Leaving the mic on when taking a bathroom break.
Reminder: for in-person conferences, code/text on the screen needs to be BIGGER.
No, even bigger than that. A little bigger. Yes, that's right.
To sum up:
In a few weeks folks will find out if they're speaking at Kubecon EU 2023 or not. If it's "not" for you, understand that very difficult talk choices were made as part of an extremely labor-intensive process staffed by your own fellow community members. And then, try again next event.
#Kubecon #SpeakerTips (4/fin)
Hey everyone, track lead for Kubecon EU 2023 here (Performance & Runtimes). This is your semi-annual thread about how Kubecon talks are picked, in advance of anyone getting an acceptance/rejection. First: your talks were picked, or not picked, but your fellow community members. The reviewer pool comes from the community; the track leads are all community members; and the Kubecon Chairs (who make the final decisions) are community members as well (1) #Kubecon #SpeakerTips
We have already received some truly incredible talks, which bodes well for #DevConf2023
We close speaker submissions on 17 Jan '23 and expect to have our agenda ready by the end of Feb '23.
Hey, speakers: when you submit a talk that's really about your product but stealthily don't mention the product? Yeah, we're on to that. Program committee members can google. And while pitchy talks don't rate well, stealth pitches are an instant "reject".
Do you have a diverse view on a specific topic that you will submit for DevConf?
We LOVE that, & we actively aim to include some of those in our selection so if you have one of these in your bag of tricks make sure you include it in your notes!
#DevConf #CFP #techevents #SpeakerTips #technology #event #conference #callforpapers
